They Asked Quotes
128 quotes by 109 authors
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
— Ramsey Clark
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In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all…
— Hillary Clinton
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They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight…
— Malcolm X
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Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole…
— Gerald Vann
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Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional…
— Daniel D. Polsby
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"On Pat Hearne - He made money in stocks, and that made people ask him for advice. He would never give any. If they asked…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but…
— Aziz Ansari
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After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they…
— Colleen Haskell
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In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
— David Morse
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
— Imogen Cunningham
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They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind…
— Dan Quayle
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They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.
— Jay London
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Every day of Ramadhan Allah beautifies Jannah and says: "Soon my righteous servants will finish their work and will rest in you." On the last…
— Muhammad
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When a friend of mine introduced me to the music of Luca C & Brigante I was stuck with an apocalyptic feeling, as if I…
— Roisin Murphy
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There was some discussion, but nothing got close to being a reality. They asked for a lot and got a lot (from the White Sox).
— Eric Wedge
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When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked…
— Ani DiFranco
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I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a…
— Pope Francis
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They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to record entire versions…
— John Scalzi
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The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these…
— Deborah Cox
Who Wrote These They Asked Quotes
109 authors contributed a total of 128 They Asked Quotes, led by these top contributors: